Microsoft launched Microsoft loop back in November 2021 with a due date in 2022 expected Microsoft
still haven't released yet but yesterday there was a leak and it came through on microsoft.com they
found that somebody tweeted out a link to the home page and sign up page and there's a few clues that
we've guessed from some of the things that they've already posted so today I wanted to dive into what
we can gather from some of these screenshots that were posted and how we can sort of learn about
some of the new features so if you are new here welcome to keep productive my name is Francesco
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fire Cube Studios was the folks that posted about this and you can see that they had this link here
and if you go to loop.microsoft.com now it really just reroutes you to the initial page but let's
dive into the first screenshot so first things first they've said they want people to test early
together so this was an internal early release of Microsoft Loop and they wanted people to test the
latest features so from the first screenshot that we haven't seen on previous screenshots in this
bottom left-hand corner I'll zoom in here for you you can see recent drafts and favorites this is
something we didn't see in the previous release and gives us a bit of a clue that Microsoft are
planning to make areas for drafting a little bit like you would have private in your workspaces
in notion you'll also be able to view any of your recent ones and do all the regular stuff
that you'd expect by knocking down this one down and being able to interact with your workspace
here so something small in addition but something that we didn't really know beforehand now moving
on you can see that although they're just sort of rehashing the same thing Loop workspaces you can
see that you'll be able to see eight members and four tasks at a glance so you'll be able to see
any outstanding stuff that you and your team are working on and they're looking like they
continue to invest the ability to embed your other documents inside of Microsoft Loop so word OneNote
Etc all the way throughout the account which makes you and your team's access a lot easier
now this is probably one of the most interesting pages from the leaks is that they're launching on
iOS now that's good news I don't know whether they actually can have an Android application
but it seems weird to pinpoint iOS only if they're releasing to iOS and to web seems
a strange combination but I guess they know what they're doing in terms of what they think is most
ready and most suitable because see here you'll be able to access some of the Microsoft documents
all the way through the application one of the biggest things that I didn't see coming although
it says coming soon down here very subtly and not very clearly it should be here maybe to indicate
this feature is coming soon but then creating voice notes um video notes and comments inside
of there which is such a weird function to have it's something that currently belongs inside of
Microsoft teams a fairly recent feature they did if you want to see the three Microsoft teams new
features that were released you can watch the video in the cards above however interesting
ability to have I guess they're trying to find unique ways to step above notion and applications
like this so they're probably trying to find these small things that they can do and stuff they've
recently built that they can weave in and this is one of those things they're pushing towards
an asynchronous Work Market too which is pretty good bottom left hand corner shared Joy it seems
to be a lot stronger inside this application with the ability to add these emojis and reactions all
around so I definitely expect bigger things to come from this more reactions visually in
the screen things that you're probably expect to see inside of apps like Asana which are commonly
well known for I think they used to have a llama that ran across the screen I'm not quite sure can
somebody check for me in the comments below but I really like this view here they didn't really
show much about their tasks but collaborating in real time around these components is something
they're investing a lot into and the ability to create tasks managers who's assigned them and due
dates it looks really nice a nice blend between the likes of Coda and Microsoft's fluent design
so if you go over to here they're obviously investing a lot in their Loop components and
they're making it clear here that teams Outlook word and OneNote will get the ability to edit in
line and if you missed their ignite event last time they actually touched on some of their
developer abilities for this new Loop component API and I believe they talked through the Zoho
component that they've created and the ability to edit it without actually going into Zoho which is
a really cool function and I think a lot of people want to remove the use of multi-applications in
once they want to sort of set it forget it and use it in in live now those aren't the only four
screenshots there was a couple below but however now you you try and go on on this link it says our
Public Library hasn't started yet stay tuned and we'll get you looped in soon so um that's a bit
of a shame but if you go down to more I'll link this tweet below and there was this post about
the sort of structure of it and it's weird because it looks like they got this this person got a full
um preview of the page um so you can see here that and and the interesting thing that this person was
saying was they were saying that the branding they the way they are branding a martinus makes it feel
more personal and less corporate so that's quite interesting because if they I think if
they see this being a more personal tool maybe Loop would be changed in terms of its approach
to having a personal version two which could be pretty decent so a few additional things from oh
my time limit's on Twitter um a few of the additional things that you may have missed
on this one is you can see down here I don't know whether you can see it in detail this looks
like a Microsoft whiteboard function so being able to have a mood board inside of there could
be pretty cool in terms of your experience but most of these Pages look like existing
um abilities they're not like pages from scratch that you've created inside of loop but down here
a few additional things let's skip through the stuff that we've already looked at the template
game there is no need to start from scratch you insert different types of content and start with
it page template but if you look here I'll try and go a little bit closer closer and zoom in
um is that any better let's see nope it just retains the size but you can see here that there's
basic blocks and starting blocks so I guess basic blocks are the ones that are sort of more rigid
in structure whilst the starting blocks are more actionable you can also bring in people and files
so they look like they'll probably connect to OneDrive from day one now moving down here this
is really interesting the ability to have your boards so boards likely to be a function from day
one however staying on track will be a function from day one so being able to manage the board I
really love that design it seems really nice and intuitive catching up and keeping organized will
be coming soon now catching up would likely be a portal where you can see all of the different
things that happen in your Loop because I can imagine that's probably what they're going to
suffer from is an activity log or some way of being able to quickly summarize what's happened in
your in your Loop area or workspaces and catch up will be pretty fundamental to that keep organized
apply labels to your work so you don't you know what is on track finished and What needs attention
so quite interesting in terms of um they're adding tags to this so that's probably set to come in
the future now we've seen this and down at the bottom it says try Loop now discover a new way
to work with Loop so that was pretty decent thank you to those who sort of leaked out on Twitter
um obviously those on Microsoft on Microsoft that covered this um but of course something
that is really interesting now if you actually go to the page I think I mentioned it actually uh
just shows the original Microsoft loot workspace I think it was an error on their behalf probably
a tease on their behalf to keep the news flowing but I think October will probably see this version
um likely released and out in the wild anyway folks what are your thoughts on
some of my analysis of this new leaked images let me know what you think below
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